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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Mine articles of faith in men's honour are obsolete or heretical. I had deemed it dishonouring in a noble nature to countenance insult to a noble enemy in his absence. "Lady, you are cruel and unjust, like all your haughty race; and idle were reply to one who, of all persons, should have judged me better.
And meantime the dishonouring shout of the newspaper hawkers, that cry in which there was both smirch and buffet, seemed like the last knell of the day, ringing the nation's funeral at the outset of the night of pleasure which was beginning. Then Pierre once more remembered his morning and that frightful house in the Rue des Saules, where so much want and suffering were heaped up.
Yet I, who heard something of what passed, had much ado not to step in and bid her pay no heed to homage that was empty if not dishonouring. Suddenly the Duke turned round and called to me. "Mr Dale," he cried, "there needed but one thing to bind us closer, and here it is!
Justinian's conduct was dishonouring to the Church, and he used force to get the decrees of the Council accepted. Only by degrees the council held by Eutychius obtained the name of the Fifth General Council. In August, 554, the Pope was again on good terms with the emperor, who issued at his request the Pragmatic Sanction for Italy.
He had not been born without natural gifts, such as Heaven rarely denies to prince or peasant; but the courage which he once possessed had been exhausted on the field of Moncontour, his manhood had been left behind him at Venice, and such wit as Heaven had endowed him withal was now expended in darting viperous epigrams at court-ladies whom he was only capable of dishonouring by calumny, and whose charms he burned to outrival in the estimation of his minions.
And to crown all, came the intolerable conviction, in the formation of which Wilson's triumphant words had not been necessary, that if he won the election it would be due to this public dishonouring of his own father. He walked about the room in despair, and at last halted before the mantelpiece on which still stood the photograph of the Princess in its silver frame.
Don't you see it yourself this man is dishonouring me in the eyes of the island? If you have tried your best to keep his neck out of the halter, let the consequences be his own." "Eh?" said Philip, with his eyes on the floor. "You have done your duty by the man, I say. Help yourself to a glass of wine." Still Philip did not speak.
They mean what they say, and you are right what which they threaten they can perform." "Let my grandchild speak," said Benoni. "Daughter, is it your wish that such dishonouring bonds should be laid upon me?" "Grandsire," replied Miriam, in a pure, clear voice, "I may not quarrel with that which is done for my own good.
"You see," he went on, "the man doesn't expect his wife to care much about him. It's not that; he isn't merely jealous, you know. But he feels that she is on the brink of dishonouring herself because I don't think a woman can really dishonour her husband; dishonour is in our own hands, and depends only on our own acts. He ought to save her, do you see?
The lady who refused the dishonouring suit of the fairest prince and the boldest knight in the Christian world thereby made herself worthy of the suit that honoured her; it was not Elizabeth Woodville alone that won the purple. On the day she mounted a throne, the chastity of woman herself was crowned."
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